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Word: girdle (lookup usage) (lookup stats)


Meaning:

Noun:

  • A belt; especially, a belt, sash, or article of dress encircling the body usually at the waist, often used to support stockings or hosiery.
  • A thin bed or stratum of stone.
  • That which girds, encircles, or encloses; a circumference
  • The clitellum of an earthworm.
  • The line of greatest brilliant-cut diamond, at which it is grasped by the setting.
  • The zodiac; also, the equator.

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Verb:

  • transitive To gird, encircle, or constrain by such means.
  • transitive To kill or stunt a tree by removing or inverting a ring of bark.

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